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John Han is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL). QTL enables hundreds of companies to deliver innovative products by licensing Qualcomm’s leading foundational innovations in areas such as 4G, 5G, video compression, and Wi-Fi. John is responsible for QTL’s overall business, overseeing strategy, account management, negotiations, operations, compliance, finance, communications, and patent analysis...

Gideon Myles is Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property at OpenAI, where he specialized in a variety of Intellectual Property issues including overseeing OpenAI’s patent, trademark, and open source compliance programs. Previously, he was Head of Intellectual Property at Dropbox where he had similar responsibilities. Prior to his legal career, Gideon was a software engineer at IBM Research...

Russell is a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP where he has spent his entire 40+ year career. He focuses his trial (jury, bench, and ITC), appellate (Federal Circuit), and alternative dispute resolution practice on patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation matters, and disputes involving and related to technology transfer and patent license agreements. He is a past member of the Board of LESI. He is a Past-President of LES (USA and Canada); a past-chair of the By-Laws Committee...

Dr. Richard (“Dick”) Thurston is one of the top non-engineer semiconductor specialists in the United States and has assisted many companies and governments in the establishment and management of semiconductor-focused technology parks around the world. He is now serving as the Chairman and CEO of Great Lakes Semiconductor...

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